Billy Ram Balgobin posted:Stormborn posted:Billy Ram Balgobin posted:I am afraid many of you are oblivious to the dangers ahead with the illegal APNU/AFC government in power. Oil dollars will be used to fete a few and suppress the many. It is imperative that we get this government to respect the constitution and hold free elections. Guyana cannot afford another 28 years of PNC rule. We cannot allow our country to be ruined again. I am asking you people to put Guyana first by taking a stand against the illegal regime that uses threats and violence to silence its opponents.
I do not see the Jagdeo crew as custodians of the state for whom one would with alacrity rush to the polls. The 23 years of their stewardship was awash with crony capitalism, friends and family nepotism and totalized arrogance, disrespect.
They formally introduced a system of patronage in the civil service and made poor black people serfs to the resident minister. Amerindians were completely "otherized" to the point that nits like Dharamlall could verbally abused them before senior ministers and get away with it.
I have no longing for the PPP and carry a similar contempt for the Granger regime. Given the PPP hand picked that slovenly fellow as their candidate we still have Jagdeo pulling a putin on us. The PPP offers no solace.
You are dishonest to say all those negative things about the PPP government. Guyana's economy grew and the standard of living improved significantly in those 23 years. By 2019, the GDP was 10 times the size of what it was in 1992. Blacks made up over 80 percent of the civil service. The PPP government refused to give in to pressure from the world bank to reduce the size of the civil service fearing riots from the PNC. Land distributions to the Amerindians was done a record scale which made the PNC angry charging that our native people has gotten too much from the PPP government and therefore should not get any of the oil revenues. A recent reports in the Stabroek News stated that they are over 600 Amerindian doctors. Under whose government did they get scholarships to pursue a medical degree? Certainly not the PNC.
Stormy,
If you think that people are stupid to believe what's written just because it's written skillfully you are living in a fool's paradise. People know that the PPP did not do such an awful job governing. They know that corruption existed under Jagdeo but they also that the opposition magnified it. People know that government will always have dishonest people but the know some governments are less corrupt than others. The PPP is better party to trust with Guyana's future, especially with oil becoming the major revenue earner. We don't a government that hides away millions in bonus from the people in secret bank accounts and blatantly lies about it. We don't need a government that rigs elections and defy the constitution. If you think Shuman will make a difference then I must advise you that you are not thinking straight. You seriously need to relax your brain and crank it up to get a real view of things in Guyana.
Dishonest to say the PPP are crooks when it is clear they allocated dachas for all their party members on preferred sea side community? That they give away our ornamental red wood for pennies to the Chinese and that one Chinaman owned more land than all Amerindian tribes combined and they refused to give Amerinds their lands? And that is not counting the giveaway of lands to the berbice bridge, CGX, Crab island for refinance to the same people while, again, Amerindians cannot get their land!. That these formerly church mice with income stream of less than a mickeydees manager somehow are able to amass enough wealth to be the new fat cats in town?
I hope shuman picks up two seats, one from disenchanted urban youths and another from Amerindians so as to shut down the large scale thievery of the PPP and the PNC. This dictatorial constitution in the hands of the PPP or the PNC will mean the same thing...autocratic government with thievery on their mind. Note the PPP abused the constitution no less than the PNC. For example they insisted a rejection of any line item means a rejection of the Budget in total Those bastards did not want scrutiny of their spending. Is that not why the finance ministers never installed the two of the most significant modules of the nation accounting system insisting ( contrary to the seller of the system) that it was too hard.
I can list a thousand and one ways those crooks abused the state and the people but what would that matter. You have your eyes wide shut.